Tag: physics
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Ring around
This is another shot from the quantum superposition viewer. Â It’s neat as op art, but I’m still trying to fully grasp the realization I made that this represents an unchanging distribution of a unit of rotational motion. Â The state is fixed, but it contains within it an orbiting particle. Related Images:
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Current project
I’m playing around with quantum mechanical superposition and hydrogen wave functions again.  This time with really simple 2 dimensional renderings.  I’ve been trying to get a grip on some of the basic principles and this is what I’ve got up so far. I’m learning a lot, and there is quite a bit to be gained from playing…
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All things must pass
This article reminded me of one of the strange features of the standard wave equation from basic physics. Â The wave equation describes an infinitely long vibrating string. Â Like point masses from Newtonian physics each bit of string has a position and velocity. Â If you know the position and velocity of the entire string at one…
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Forgot to upload this image
After scanning through my blog after the South by Southwest Interactive festival, I realized that I never uploaded an image for my tribute to Ablaze.js. Related Images:
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Something different about this one
Continuing on the theme of central forces. This is an initial image of the next guy I’m looking at. This one is pretty similar to the others I’ve done except for that empty circle in the center. Related Images:
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Gravitational slingshots
In my last few posts, I’ve been trying to characterize different potentials through the shapes of their orbits (gravitational, harmonic, lorentz). In the middle of it, I came across a post on bad astronomy about gravitational slingshots. I figured it would be a perfect opportunity to use these images to show the effect in a…
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Central force images #2
This is the second in a series profiling the solutions to common central force fields from physics. Check out the the first one on the Newtonian gravitational force field. These are even more plain than the gravitational well. That’s because these are for the harmonic potential. One of the things that distinguishes this potential is…
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These aren’t all that pretty
Any guesses as to what these are? Rather than focus on chaotic dynamics I wanted to see how I could explore the differences between the classical central forces. This one is newtonian gravity. Related Images:
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Rough and Random page
I’ve had this sitting on my computer for a while and thought I’d publish it rather then just leave it sitting there. This simulates a pulse of light expanding out like my compression wave examples. This time however, we are looking at a pulse of light expanding in the vicinity of a black hole. Rather…
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I never knew it looked like that
These are all images of the same electron orbital. The doughnut or torus shows the electron rotating around the central point in the orbital plane. In the standard terminology this has principal quantum number 2, which represents the energy level of the electron. The azimuthal quantum number is 1. This represents how much of…